PRE2019 3 Group13

Group members

Student name	Student ID	Study	E-mail
Yara Daamen	1337157	Pyschology & Technology	y.f.daamen@student.tue.nl
Heather Hanegraaf	1330454	Biomedische Technologie	h.e.h.hanegraaf@student.tue.nl
Mayke Scheffer	1234784	Electrical Engineering	m.scheffer1@student.tue.nl
Wouter Haneveer	1300334	Computer Science	w.haneveer@student.tue.nl
Gijs van Bakel	1239472	Applied Physics	g.v.bakel@student.tue.nl

Users

The primary users that this project is focused on are people with tremors, patients who suffer from Parkinson's disease in particular. According to volksgezondheid.info, an estimate of 52.200 people suffer from the condition in the Netherlands. The disease is more common the older a person gets, and it extremely rare in people under 50 years old.

What the users require is the following:

1. Autonomy

The user requires the device to be autonomous, so it must be able to reduce the effects of tremors without needing the patient to exert extra effort.

2. Independence

The user requires the device the be used independently, without the assistance of any other person.

3. Compatibility

The user must be able to use the device on any cutlery.

4. Comfortability

The user must be able to use the device for extended amounts of time without being uncomfortable.

Approach, Planning, Milestones and Deliverables

Approach

The aim of this project is to help people with nerve diseases such as tremor to become more independent. We are going to do this by making special cutlery, which makes it possible to eat independently for this target group. We want to achieve this goal by delivering a prototype and model on how the cutlery can be implemented. The approach to reach those two goals contains multiple steps.

1. Research

Firstly, we will be going through research papers and other sources which describe the state of art of such cutlery and its respective components. This allows our group to get a grasp of the current technology of such a system and introduce us to the new developments in this field. This also helps to create a foundation for the project, which we can develop into. The state of art also gives valuable insight into possible solutions we can think and whether their implementation is feasible given the knowledge we possess and the limited time. The Research has to be done with the use of literature, survey(s), personal interview(s), recent reports from research institutes and the media and analyzing patents which are strongly connected to our project.

2. USE aspects

Furthermore, we will continue to analyze the problem from a USE – user, society, enterprise – perspective. An important source of this analysis is the state of art research, where the results of these cutlery systems in different stakeholders are discussed. The USE aspects will be of utmost importance for our project as every engineer should strive to develop new technologies for helping not only the users but also the society as a whole and to avoid the possible consequence of the system they develop. This analysis will finally lead to a list of requirements for our design.

3. Product shaping

Finally, we hope to develop a prototype in which the product will be conceptualized and programmed. In this process the RPC's are used to chose the program, hardware and the approach of the programming language itself.

4. Documentation

The wiki has to be updated and look like a report at the end of the project. To accomplish this someone will be assigned to check and edit the page every week. Besides the wiki, a presentation has to be made in anticipation of the last few weeks. Together with the prototype, the wiki page and the presentation are our final deliverables for the project.

Below the summary of the main steps in our approach of the project.

• Doing research on our chosen project using SotA literature analysis
• Analyzing the USE aspects and determining the requirements of our system
• Choose the Hardware and Software for the prototype
• Work on the prototype
• Create a demo of the tracking functionality
• Evaluate the prototype

Milestones

Here the major milestones can be found for every week. :

• Week 1: The subject is chosen and also the Plan for the project has been made.
• Week 2: It is clear who the users are, the research is finished and also the requirements are decided.
• Week 3: Research into design prototype and costs.
• Week 4: Research into software prototype and a list of parts and estimation of costs is made.
• Week 5: Building prototype.
• Week 6: The prototype has been made.
• Week 7: The tracker demo will be finished in order to be at the presentations.
• Week 8: The wiki page is finished and updated with the results that were found from testing the prototype. Also, future developments are looked into and added to the wiki page.

Deliverables

Within this project there are four final deliverables.

• This wiki page, which contains all of our research and findings
• A presentation, which is a summary of what was done and what our most important results are
• A prototype
• A video of the tracker demo

Planning

Name	Week #1	Week #2	Week #3	Week #4	Week #5	Week #6	Week #7	Week #8
	Research	RPC's and USE Analysis + start prototype research	Hardware Design	Software Design	Prototype / Concept	Proof Reading	Future Developments	Conclusions
Heather Hanegraaf	Write approach, milestones and deliverables
	Brainstrom subject ideas
	Make the planning
Yara Daamen	Research 12 or more papers
	Add the research papers to the wiki page
Mayke Scheffer	Write problem statement and objectives
Wouter Haneveer	Research 12 or more papers
	Add the research papers to the wiki page
Gijs van Bakel	Write User part
	Research 5 or more papers
Group Work	Brainstorm about the subject during meeting
	Online meeting (Whatsapp) about subject